It seems to me... not that that means much.. a useful function might be the ability to control a subscribers ability to modify their settings. If I could set them nomail/digest/index etc.. and they could not change it... How many times have you encountered subscribers with limited mailboxes... frequently not checking or going out of town.. set them nomail.. they come back.. alter back to mail... catch 22.. Laziness on the part of posters would appear to me to be one of the most challenging of duties a list owner addresses.. Quoting entire posts in response rather than editing for quality discussion.. forwarding attachments rather than cutting and pasting germain information.. well you all know... Back yonder years.. when it was CompuServe or nothing.. when chat lines were on modem user groups.. when everyone who accessed the information hiway was a (dare I use the word) geek.. But now, we (or at least those of us running general newsgroups) must adapt to circumstances and users that are not cognizant of netiquette or protocol.. For my nickel.. we need some new tools.. Bill Salmon